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CHECK Book.

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Patented June 12, 1917.

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TE sTATns JOHN F. SHOEMAKER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

CHECK-BOOK. A

l Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June i2, i917.

Application led October 18, 1915. Serial No. 56,485.

The invention relates to improvements in check books.

-The object ofthe present invention is to improve the construction of cheek books and to provide a simple, practical and comparatively inexpensive check book designed principally for use in connection with safety bank checks forming the subject matter of.,

a (zo-pending application filed April 12th, 1915, Serial #20,908, and equipped with means for enabling the proper amount to be indicatedv by the coupon or extension to be readily torn ofi' with absolute accuracy.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in' the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without 'departing from the spirit ory sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawingsv Figure 1 is a plan view of a desk check book constructed in accordance with this invention and shown open, a portion of one of the covers being broken away,

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Fig. -1 illustrating the manner of mounting the cutter,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken longitudinally of the checkbook and illustrating the manner of binding the checks,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 5 is a plan view ofa portion of a pocket check book, Y

Fig. 6 is a longitudinalsectional view of the same.

Like numerals of referencedesignate corresponding parts in the several gures of the drawings. p

In the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the inventionLthedesk check book comprises in its construction covers 1 and 2 of any desired construction and either plain or ornamental or expensive and connected by a flexible portion or back 3. The back 3 is provided at its inner face with a pocket 4 extending from the top to the'bottom of the cover 2 and adapted to receive a leaf binder tongue or element 5 constructed of suitable flexible material such as paper lined with y cloth and folded vertically to form binding portions 6 and 7 adapted to receive the stubs 8 of checks 9. The binding portion `7 is formed by a fold as shown and the stubs of the checks are detachably secured between the binding portions of the binder tongue by a metal strip or staple l10 arranged'on the exterior of the clamping portion 6 and having its terminals passed through slots 11 and 12 of 'the binding portions and through the stubs of the checks and bent outwardly in opposite directions or clenched at 13 against the clamping portions 7 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. flhe metallic fastening strip 10, by having 1ts terminal portions passed through the slots of the binding tongue and the stubs, detachably secures the stubs and checks to the cover and after the checks have been used the terminal portions 13 may be bent back and the metallic strip removed to permit the stubs to be detached and another series of checks to be secured in the cover. The leaf binder element is detachably fitted in the pocket 4 as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings and it will enable a number of i loose Ichecks to be readily `applied to the-A covers 1 and 2. This will enable banks to supply coversl and leaf binders to their depositors and as the sheets or blank checksl may be readily bound in the covers, the bank may obtain such sheets or checks unbound and supply them to their depositors as required and the expense of supplying such check b'ooks and checks will be materially decreased.

The cover 1 is equipped with a check cutter 14 consisting of a strip of metal orother sultable material extending vertically across the inner face of the cover 1 of the desk `check book and having its terminals fitted in pockets 15 and 16 formed in the cover 1 near the upper and lower edges thereof. The cutter is provided with a reduced upper portion forming an inclined shoulder The cutter 14 is adapted to be readily sprung into and out of engagement with the vertically alined pockets 1,5 and 16. A

Acutter 24 may be 'arranged in longitudinally alined' pockets 18 and 19 of a pocket check book 23, consistingof a number of checks bound in the front cover in the usual manner. The pockets 18 and 19 are preferably formed by strips'20 and 21 secured toand extending across the inner and outer ends of the con'ers 22 of the pocket check book 28. By having a removable cutter adapted to be transferred from onecheck book to another,v only one cutter need be supplied to a depositor.

What is claimed is y l.' A check book provided at the inner face of one of its covers with a cutter consisting of a' stripof thin material connected at its ends with the cover within the mar- -ginaledges of the latter, said cutter being arranged in close proximity .to the inner face of the cover and-,permitting acheck to be passed between it and the said cover.

2. 'A check book provided at the inner face of one of its covers with a cutter consisting of a strip of thinmaterial connectedv at its ends withthe cover within the mar-r ginal edgesof the latter, said cutter being arranged in close proximity tov-the inner face of the cover and permitting a check to be passed between it and the said cover, and provided at a point intermediate of its ends with a shoulder. i

3. A check book provided at the inner f ace of one of its covers with a cutter conslsting ofa strip vof thin material connected at its ends with the cover within the Inarginal edges of the latter, said cutter. being provided at a point intermediate of its lends with a shoulder, arranged at an obtuse angle to the upper portion of the cutter.

40 arranged in close proximity to the inner f face 'of the cover and permitting a check to `be passed between it and the said cover, and

4. A check book having a cover provided` with spaced pockets and a resilient check.

cutter having its terminals lsprung into the said pockets and detachably secured by the same to the said cover, the intermediate portion of the cutter being arranged to permit a check to be passed between it and the cover and adapted to-bepressed against the check Vwhile the same is being cut.

' In testimony whereof l aiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. SHOEMAKER.

Witnesses A.. L. GARVEL J. L.LIv1NGsa;oN 

